I don't see us hanging in there even if we tried, because there are some pretty serious numbers needed for that, and I think we are neither willing nor capable to do it.

Would there be any interest from the rest of you to try a short burst in this project?
I can see five reasons for doing so:
1) In the "glory days" of Folding, we managed about the same numbers as we are doing today, so it would be fun to see what we could do if we really put some effort into it.
2) It would keep us in the top 100 for a few more days, and we would go out in style.
5) Three Sir.

I would suggest about 2-4 weeks combined knightly effort, or perhaps a POTM?
Comments please?

I'd be willing to try, but I've never had a whole lot of success with the GPU version (ATI). And running the CPU version seems to go at a crawl. I might need some help setting things up if/when we decide to give it a go._________________>stats<

I agree that the different clients are a bit of a mess to get into, and I've complained quite a bit about the Folding stats myself over the years.
For example, if you run the SMP client you will get a LOT more points than running several instances of the regular client, even though the SMP client doesn't utilize all cores 100%. So basically, you get more points for doing less work...

I'm not a big fan of Folding anymore, and I won't be doing it for a very long time. This would be more of a stats and test thing.

I don't think it's worth doing if we can't get at least a dozen or so kaniggits involved. Just the four of us that's interested so far won't make much of a burst in the stats

I agree, even though it's just for fun, their point system is rather depressing if you don't have a supercomputer. Somebody with access to an 80-core computer at work complained about the maximum bonus for returning results quickly (100x pts.) wasn't enough, so they removed the limit. You could run a thousand regular shrubbers and get bubkis, bonus-wise.

Anyway, I haven't seen any other suggestions for a Sept. POTM. I can run 2 GT240's and 10 console clients. I haven't seen how to use the HD5770 yet. My old(<4yrs!) HP pavilion is too slow to be worthwhile unless I add a graphics card, which will probably require a beefier power supply, and additional cooling, which probably means transplanting to a new case. Ugh.

Any idea how many knights are potentially available? I agree, 10-20 could make things interesting._________________

Just fair warning, I've been folding since early July anyway. I hate people that run ahead then yell "Race ya!".
You've got 4 days to gear up, I switched 8 cores back to Collatz for now. Say "When"

I wish I was in my old job surrounded by magic shrubberies that can help for the cause... alas, I have only 3 right now so it's not a fair race, but still, I'm loonie enough to race ya for the cause of folding the shrubbery genome, I just started now, the race has started! _________________Anyone for Crunch?

That's fair then, I'm running 1 dual-core E7400 system full time, and 2 quads, Q9400 & Q9550, 12hrs or so per day, but the Q9550 system has the HD5770 card, which the folding client won't use. Maybe it's me.

I'm collecting parts for a Phenom II X6 1090T shrubber, I hope I can find enough electricity for them all. Plus the AC._________________

That's fair then, I'm running 1 dual-core E7400 system full time, and 2 quads, Q9400 & Q9550, 12hrs or so per day, but the Q9550 system has the HD5770 card, which the folding client won't use. Maybe it's me.

I'm collecting parts for a Phenom II X6 1090T shrubber, I hope I can find enough electricity for them all. Plus the AC.

And just like KWSN slowly descending out of the top 100 scope, so shall I be slowly bumped out of my place